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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

'Blythewood'

'Blythewood', the George Smith estate designed by Henry Otis Chapman c. 1913 in Muttontown. Click HERE for more on 'Blythewood' and HERE to see the residence on bing. Photo from Landscape Architecture, 1917 (in a spread for the landscape company Lewis & Valentine).

5 comments:

Nice stately entrance ! Looking at the long drive towards the house, in the photos from the May 28tn, 2008 posting on Old Long Island, I wonder how those beautiful mature trees made out in that terrible storm of 2012 ? That would be an interesting update on a future posting !